Re: [extremeperl] Better Development Tools for Perl

Firstly, people can write good / bad code (or systems) in any language. I like Robs comparison with the guilds - living amongst a community of granite workers

Message 1 of 107
, Jun 9, 2005

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Firstly, people can write good / bad code (or systems) in any
language. I like Robs comparison with the guilds - living amongst a
community of granite workers I can certainly appreciate it!

After all these years I've come to the conclusion that there is no
perfect environment and that there never can be - programming well and
"efficiently" comes down to your state of mind - there is no perfect
"tool" and because it is related to the mind and mind state rather
than something physical (shoe size etc) - everybody has a different
take on it - all minds are different! One persons perfect example of
something which should be refactored is another persons perfect piece
of code.

What will get a particular technology (language etc) involved in big
project has less to do with IDEs etc and more to do with :
a) what the CTO thinks is "good" - here marketing matters - Sun, IBM,
Oracle, Microsoft and others are spending seriously large amounts of
cash on persuading CTOs that their flavour is "best" - I have never
seen a billboard promoting perl!

b) the availability of "workers" in that language - colleges are not
teaching perl here in Ireland to my knowledge - but they are teaching
java / vb. I'm currently doing some work with a life insurance
company - in this industry systems run on big IBM mainframes and the
expected life of the system is in decades - its written in cobol and
because IBM actively support java, there is a very slow process of
migrating new projects to java. The system has been written over the
last 40 years and there are hundreds of programers working on it and
millions of lines of code - only a tiny fraction is in java. These
guys know that in ten years time they will be able to find programmers
who "do" java.

In short the rise or fall of a language has less to do with the
technicalities / capabilities and more to do with economics.

cheers!
Sean

On 6/9/05, J Matisse Enzer <matisse@...> wrote:
> My fundamental argument (which it would be great if it's wrong) is that
> Perl's "market share" is going to erode a lot, and quickly unless the
> tools for Perl get a lot better.

Siegfried Heintze

Since there was a helpful discussion some time ago on USB keyboards and mice for pair programming that was not specific to perl, I wanted to solicit the group

Message 107 of 107
, Feb 13, 2006

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Since there was a helpful discussion some time ago on USB keyboards and mice
for pair programming that was not specific to perl, I wanted to solicit the
group for information on network software (also not specific to perl).

I just set up openVPN on my openwrt/WRT54G router for pair programming with
a headset and skype.

(1) Can any point me to the documentation on sharing desktops on windows? I
need to create accounts on Win2003 XP Server. When I created an account
belonging only to the user group, my partner could not log in. He was
receiving some error message about not being permitted to log in
interactively. However, when I added the administrator group (reluctantly)
to his account, he could log in. Is there a tutorial somewhere on the web
for creating user accounts in windows for use with remote desktop logins on
VPNs?

(2) How do I share my remote desktop setting with a programming pair
partner?

(3) What about sharing sessions when I'm booted with linux? I think there is
a vnc program out there, but I don't know how to use it. I'll need to learn
how to create accounts and share linux desktops with remote VPN users. Is
there a tutorial on this?

(4) Are video cams very helpful for pair programming?

It seems that this kind of knowledge would be very common for pair
programmers.

Thanks,

Siegfried

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